A longtime teacher at an exclusive Denver preschool kept a detailed journal over roughly 15 years that documented physical contact with multiple children, according to court testimony Tuesday.

The journal belonged to David Moe, 45, who taught at Paddington Station Preschool for 18 years — and now faces charges of possessing and distributing child pornography.

The former teacher has been jailed since his arrest July 24. Moe resigned from the school Thursday.

Excerpts from Moe’s 800-page journal, which he had kept since 1997, were read in court Tuesday during a four-hour hearing in U.S. District Court on his motion to be granted bail.

In several of the entries, Moe wrote about his contact with the little girls at the preschool, detailing squeezes, tickles, hugs and kisses.

More than 10 years before his arrest, officials at the school did not notify law enforcement or human services about an accusation that Moe inappropriately touched a 3-year-old girl while changing her diaper. Failure to disclose the accusation is a “blatant violation” of state law, said Liz McDonough, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Human Services.

Professionals designated as mandated reporters — including all child-care providers — are required to immediately notify human services and law enforcement after learning about an allegation of abuse or neglect on a child.

George Merritt, a spokesman for the school, declined to comment on the incident.

In a separate statement released by Merritt, school officials said they were “deeply affected by the actions of David Moe and the details laid out in today’s hearing.” The revelations from the journals were “extremely troubling to all of us,” according to the statement.

Moe was in the courtroom Tuesday as Special Agent Ryan Palmer of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security testified that the 3-year-old girl repeatedly told her parents, “Dave touch,” after returning from preschool. The child, who had recently been adopted from Romania, repeated the phrase as she pointed at both her own genitals and the genital area of a doll, said Palmer, who has spent the past six years investigating child pornography cases for Homeland Security.

Doctors found no evidence of obvious trauma during an exam, Palmer said.

A meeting was held with school administrators, Moe and the girl’s parents in 2001. The parents pulled the girl from the school, and Paddington officials have released few details about the incident.

Palmer on Tuesday also read excerpts from Moe’s journal.

None of the entries details any sexually explicit behavior between Moe and the students, attorneys said, and the names of the children were removed. Still, the entries read in court depicted physical contact such as grabbing the waist of one little girl and rolling around on the ground with another.

“I couldn’t keep my hands off her and it was fun,” Moe wrote. He described holding one girl in his lap and then putting her down before her mother could see. He also wrote of tracking their reactions, noting that one girl did not “flinch” when he grabbed her around the waist.

On several occasions, Moe noted that his contact was excessive, but often listed his “love” for the girls immediately after. “I was overly affectionate with her, but I love her so much,” Moe wrote in 2006. “No more of that.”

A search of Moe’s home, carried out the same day he was arrested, revealed more than 500 CDs and DVDs, organized in plastic bags and labeled, in a lock box. A preliminary forensic analysis found that about 350 of those discs have pornographic images on them. One CD had about 4,100 images of erotica and child porn on it.

Moe told investigators that he prefers images of nude girls and young girls masturbating. He said he deletes photos of infants and children younger than 3.

Palmer described videos — ranging in length from 6 to 33 minutes — of prepubescent girls engaging in sex acts with each other and prepubescent boys, as well as adult men engaging in sexual acts with the girls. One photo depicted a young girl in bondage.

In May 2005, Moe wrote about a student who said she only hugs her family. Moe wrote that the little girl “had been coached.”

In a separate entry, Moe wrote that a supervisor named Ann warned him that parents were concerned that Moe allegedly kissed a girl’s scrape and then kissed her nose.

Attorney Shelley Thompson is representing three of the families. She said parents are asking longtime school head Pippi Hambidge and director Ann Solomon to reveal any information the two have about Moe.

Defense attorneys argued that Moe does not represent a danger to the community and said he would be willing to wear some type of Global Positioning System locator if he is released on bond.

Magistrate Judge Michael Hegarty said he will rule Wednesday on the request to grant Moe bond.

Jordan Steffen was the legal affairs reporter for The Denver Post. She left the organization in June 2016 after joining in January 2011. Her past coverage areas included breaking news, child welfare, the western suburbs and crime. She was raised in the Colorado mountains and graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder.

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